Download Subject: World History Grade / Group: 1001/1002

Westhill Institute
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
Department of Curriculum and Academic Programs
Headings for All Semester Exams, Final Exams, Exam Guides and
Comprehensive Semester Exams
Subject: World History
Grade / Group: 1001/1002
Teacher’s Name: Christi Myers
Bimester Examination or Guide:
5th Bimester
Date: 23 May, 2011
Student Name
___________________________________________________
By signing this document, I affirm that I have neither given
nor received help with this examination.
___________________________________________________
Student’s Signature
Students should use this guide with their textbooks, handouts and worksheets. STUDY PAST
QUIZZES AND HOMEWORK. THEY ARE AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE! Most
questions are very similar to past quiz questions.
World War II (from 4th Bimestrial Exam)
World History textbook Unit 5 “The Twentieth Century Crisis”
1. How did Treaty of Versailles lead to war? How did League of Nations fail to stop war?
2. How did the policy of Appeasement lead to WW2?
3. Rise of Totalitarian Regimes (what is a totalitarian regime?):
a.
b.
c.
d.
Japan (Who?)
Italy (Who?)
Germany (Who?)
Russia (Who?)
4. Totalitarian Expansion by Japan, Italy, Germany (Where? Why?)
5. Hitler’s Ideas from Mein Kampf: lebensraum, Final Solution
6. Kristallnacht & Nuremberg Laws
7. Final Solution (targets of, how was it carried out?)
8. Munich Conference
9. Nazi-Soviet Pact
10. Blitzkrieg
11. Major Allied Powers & Major Axis Powers
12. How did Hitler violate the Versailles Treaty?
13. Describe Japanese aggression in the Pacific.
14. Pearl Harbor (motivations, date, what happened?)
15. Island-Hopping Strategy
16. Background on and use of the Atomic Bomb
17. “Big Three”
18. Topics discussed at Yalta
19. Topics discussed at Potsdam Conference
Content Vocabulary
Demilitarized, Sanctions, Appeasement, Blitzkrieg, Isolationism, Genocide, Mobilization,
Kamikaze, Blitz
People and Places
Adolf Hitler, Rhineland, Benito Mussolini, Sudetenland, Joseph Stalin, Manchuria /
Manchukuo, New Order, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur, Winston
Churchill, Normandy, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Holocaust
COLD WAR—(FROM 5TH BIMESTER)
World History textbook Unit 6 “Toward a Global Civilization”
1. How did the changes made after World War 2 lead to the development of the Cold
War?
2. What was the fundamental difference between the Warsaw Pact and NATO? Between
the Marshall Plan and the Molotov Plan?
3. In what ways was the US policy of Containment a success? A failure?
4. Explain each events AND how it contributed to tensions between the USA & USSR
during the Cold War:
a. Berlin Airlift
b. Creation of the Berlin Wall
c. Cuban Missile Crisis
5. Who was Mao Zedong?
6. How did the Chinese Communists increase their power during World War II?
6. What was the purpose of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in
China under Mao Zedong?
7. Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
8. What effect did de-Stalinization have on Soviet satellite countries?
9.
Define:
- SALT
Content Vocabulary
Satellite states, policy of containment, arms race, deterrence, domino theory, heavy
industry, de-Stalinization, welfare state, civil rights movement, women’s liberation
movement